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First Images Of Germanwings Crash Debris Emerge; White House Says "No Indication Of Terrorism"

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While the White House, seemingly an expert in determining airplane crashes causes within hours if not minutes of the accident (see flight MH-17)  has already opined on the tragic crash of the Lufthansa Germanwings airplane:

  • WHITE HOUSE: NO INDICATION OF TERRORISM IN AIRPLANE CRASH

This will hardly be comfort to the families of the 148 people who lost their lives the crash which took place in the south Franch alps, and where the first images of the debris have just been released, via Airlive.net

 

Further evidence that the airplane crash was not a midair disintegration is that while the vertical airspeed was susbtantial, it wasn't freefall, and it took the airplane about 10 minutes to drop from a height of 11.5 to its final resting place some 2 kilometers high in the alps (via Zeit).

And here are all the latest crash developments from AP:

A local lawmaker says the debris from the plane crash in the French Alps that killed all 150 people on board is spread over 100-200 meters (110-220 yards).

 

Gilbert Sauvan, president of the general council of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, told the AP that "everything is pulverized."

 

He said the largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car.

 

Sauvan said no one can access the site from the ground, but that helicopters are circling the area to get information and 500 firefighters and gendarmes are in the area.

 

The boss of airline Germanwings says the plane went into a long descent before it crashed into the French Alps, likely killing all 150 people on board.

 

Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann said the plane began descending again shortly after it reached its cruising height following takeoff from Barcelona Airport. The descent lasted eight minutes, he told reporters in Cologne. Radar and air traffic control contact broke off at 10:53 a.m.

 

He said the pilot had more than 10 years' experience working for Germanwings and its parent airline Lufthansa. Airbus said the A320 was delivered to Lufthansa in 1991.

 

Germanwings said the passenger manifest included two babies. Officials believe there were 67 German nationals on board.

 

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Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:08 | 5922050 TeethVillage88s
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In many ways this is a show of power by the USA.

- Political power by making an announcement of any kind when the US didn't have a direct interest in the Crash, not the Site, origin, or flag of ship
- Political in controlling info, discrediting any terrorist that might want to make a statement, also this is leadership
- Geopolitical, could be a threat to any country with valuable leader/passenger on the plane, threat to Germany, threat to France to follow US World Leadership

- Geopolitical, in that USA has all the data of flights, movement of people, and the technology to "take-out" anyone anywhere

- Geopolitical Power in showing a new way to Assassinate Selected people: Could it be China, Russia, USA, some other high tech Country?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:28 | 5921938 Emergency Ward
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What happened to peremptorily blaming Putin, and after that is out of the way, conducting an investigation? 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:34 | 5921954 Spectre
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The White House once again thinks they are all-knowing and fucking experts on everything and they have big mouths.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:25 | 5921923 GIABO
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I bet the passports survived just fine though...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:29 | 5921941 Trick Shroadé
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What's the opposite of Occam's razor? Becuase I'm going with the most convoluted and paranoid explanation for this.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:14 | 5922069 Bumbu Sauce
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The opposite of Occam's is the average ZH commenter.  It was Zio chemtrail monsatan gmo protocol illuminati banksters that caused this.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:35 | 5922146 Tall Tom
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How about this...

 

I certainly do not know what caused it. And I have many,many years of studying Physics and Engineering. I am an aerospace nerd.

 

Flying is one of my fascinations. especially Spaceflight

 

Yet the White House declares that it was not a terrorist attack? How do they know? That is even crazier than the jokers, who are not serious, that I am reading here.

 

Their physics is no different than the physics which I learned.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 01:42 | 5924187 FeralSerf
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Maybe the White House has some "inside information".

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:47 | 5922437 DannoH
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Bumbu you may be 100% downvoted but your response made me spray coffee out my nose; too hilarious. As for Tall Tom, many kudos, everytime I think I have something useful to contribute I find you have already pipped me to the post. Cheers!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:19 | 5922781 Bumbu Sauce
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I'm doing my part freely and gladly.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:31 | 5921949 F.A. Hayek
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George Bush did it.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:35 | 5921961 Klemens
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It is very, very clear that this is did the NWO-Terrorists!

Not the stupiest pilot, will fly an airplane with technical problems into the high mountains!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:43 | 5921987 Truly Inspiration
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Lets be gently with you and accept that you have a weird sense of humor.

Airbus themself warned already on problems with the electronic control of the A320's - http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/elektronik-pannen-airbus-wa...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:40 | 5921980 Sirius Wonderblast
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1) There were (according to witnesses cited in the Daily Mail) fighter jets in the vicinity, not quite clear if it was under escort

2) It's air speed was about 400 knots at time of impact - this was a controlled descent, in no way a freefall

3) The air traffic controller's account appears to be being contradicted straight away.

4) White House on it like a flash.

So following the money, what's been going on lately?

1) European nations have pissed off the White House viz joining China's alternative world bank

2) Greece and Germany are looking likely to blow the Euro and the banks apart

3) This does help even the score between Boeing and Airbus.

Hmm.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:41 | 5921981 NoWayJose
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Lithium Batteries?

Spanish separatists -- err, make that Spanish Terrorists?

Boeing?  Who benefits the most by an Airbus crash?

A mistake by Blackwater mercs?

NATO Training Exercises?

German Green Party?  Encouraging people to ride bicycles instead of planes?

A troubled pilot?  Malaysia's excuse?

German Taxes Too High?  Forcing Lufthansa to run a 'low cost alternative'

Someone turned on a cell phone?

The pilot ate 'Fish'

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:51 | 5922011 Loose Caboose
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Brings to mind this crash in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_C-53_Skytrooper_crash_on_the_Gauli_Gla...

However, that was a small plane and there were survivors to rescue.  The rescue was engineered by a distant relative of mine, a swiss pilot. 

Sadly, this time, there are no survivors but the recovery of bodies and debris will be a delicate operation to say the least, given the terrain. 

RIP.  Those last 8 minutes must have been the stuff of nightmares for those aboard.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:56 | 5922019 Bumbu Sauce
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You false flag fucks are the queerest bunch...ever.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:22 | 5922091 Wahooo
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Random false flags.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:15 | 5922340 Refuse-Resist
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The only argument 'debunkers' like you can manage is ad hominem attacks. And it has been this way since people first started waking up to 9/11, and the littany of other faked events.

 

Always the same.  Clearly indicitave of shilldom.

 

Yes, I downvoted you.  I wish I could do it 100 times more.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:20 | 5922363 Bumbu Sauce
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Lol dont get all sciency you fucking queerbait.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:12 | 5922522 jomama
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who pissed in your oatmeal this morning

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:20 | 5922548 tony wilson and...
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you gotta hand it to bum bum sauce.

he uses the avatar of a child rapist he is informed of it many times and he carries on regardless proud of his analism.

what a talmudick freak

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:27 | 5923613 conscious being
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Or these guys - Published Monday, February 16, 2015 - 3 Australian Chabad Rabbis Resign After Damaging Testimony About Child Abuse Shlomo Kluwgant Called Accuser 'Lunatic'

Here's the buried MSM version

Jewish community in shock over rabbi's condemnation of child abuse cover-up

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/05/rabbi-censure-chil...

I say buried because if it was Catholic priests, it would have been on Fox News already.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:44 | 5923032 Bumbu Sauce
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Thank God almighty that your fucking retarded ass is antagonistic to me.  Fuck the world if your idiotic nonsensical fucktardedness ever agrees with me.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:25 | 5923616 conscious being
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Bumbu loves a pedophile? Explains a lot.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:57 | 5922022 Anglo Hondo
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WHITE HOUSE: NO INDICATION OF TERRORISM IN AIRPLANE CRASH.

 

However, we cannot rule out CLIMATE CHANGE.   The weather, via nasty carbon dioxide, did it.

 

Assholes.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:52 | 5922673 Lostinfortwalton
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I agree it was a French-made aircraft that crashed in France. The French and Germans will be able to figure it out. The French build airliners every bit as good as Boeing, if not better. Why not just offer condolences and any help needed. I really am tired of being ashamed of the assholes in the White House.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:11 | 5922056 observer007
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4U9525? Germanwings: VIDEO

VIDEO from Crash-Site:

http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/etc/40481-4u9525-germanwings-video

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:26 | 5922105 Youri Carma
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How do they know so quickly? After all, it's CIA's favored way of getting rid of people and sending satanic messages.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:27 | 5922108 Perfecthedge
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Washington and the US only thinks about Terrorism and War.  It is like a sick fever.  They don't care about anything else and have become inhuman.

If a flower pot falls out of a balcony in Venice, they will shout: Terrorism...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:30 | 5922115 ejamest
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German authorities have determined that many of the tickets involved in the crash were financed with Cash. Therefore, in an attempt to avoid future plane crashes, the German government is banning Cash purchases.  Also, cash payments are prohibited on anything of more than 1,000 euros, down from the current limit of  3,000 euros; the limit for foreign tourists on currency payments will remain 10,000 euros down from the current limit of 15,000 euros, and the threshold below which a German resident is  free to convert euros into other currencies without having to show an identity card will be slashed from the current level of 8,000 euros to 1,000 euros.

Oh, and in the spirit of keeping the skies safe, the German government will confiscate your gold.  

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:33 | 5922137 f16hoser
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Obama, opening his big fat dumb-ass mouth again. He doesn't know squat shit  about anything.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:03 | 5922708 TwelveOhOne
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He might not know "squat shit", but I do, and now you do too; the Squatty Potty: (weird, for some reason the image doesn't stay, even though I can see it below...  So, click the link for the product)

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:37 | 5922159 ihatebarkingdogs
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I read accident reports after the incident has been adequately anylized. I made my mind up years ago to not trust an A300 (no longer in service) or A320 to make it to a safe landing on a runway. Too many glitches in the fly-by-wire software and controls. In incident after incident, the aircraft itself (and the inability of the pilots to sort it out with the time/altitude available) is to blame for the accident. I suspect that may be the case here, but will wait for the report.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:41 | 5922182 Tigermoth
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It will be interesting to compare the time it takes to get the "black boxes" analyzed of this accident with those of MH17. I'm sure the UK will be able to assist since it has prior experience. Anyhow, I'm sure by next year sometime we might get a report on this sad incident.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:41 | 5922185 HowdyDoody
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Criminally Incompetent Assholes testing remote takedown software installed into plane?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:31 | 5922399 lakecity55
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So, you Frenchies and Krauts want to join the AIIB, eh?

We'll see about that!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:42 | 5922188 justsayin2u
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AOA indicator malfunctions and the AC controls thinks it's a stall so the plane noses over and keeps going down until either the pilots shut off the controls and pulls up or the plane hits the ground.  Sad. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:02 | 5922279 Refuse-Resist
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If it had been terrorism, there would be nothing left of the plane, no bodies, no flight data recorder etc.

 

But there would have been at least one unblemished terrorist passport to be certain.

 

Clearly, this is not terrorism.

FUCK YEAH!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:14 | 5922337 cheech_wizard
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A passport linked to a known terrorist to be found in 3...2...1... 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:30 | 5922393 lakecity55
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Could be one of those air pressure bombs. I think kadaffy or someone used them. They go off at certain altitudes, like cruising altitude. Or if the plane begins descent.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:37 | 5922406 Hannibal
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"There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,”

Oh really..?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:43 | 5922429 Bioscale
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Why the fuck is USA government saying that?

How the fuck can they know? The airplane was French, not american. When they have information about this, what about MH17 or MH370? There is no evidence.

This stinks as hell, I really would not be surpriced if the fucked up psychopats in the US were behind that. Sick filth killing people in Europe.

The US will pay for that.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:50 | 5922445 GIABO
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BumbaSauce.... Don't make me come out there and take your manhood...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:10 | 5922514 jomama
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well folks we might have us an actual plane crash accident for the first time in some time!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:16 | 5922534 Shitgum Suicide
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I'll say it.

It's Putin's fault.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:20 | 5922551 Shitgum Suicide
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Or the polar opposite, we debried some folks.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:20 | 5922786 homiegot
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Blew up in the sky. It's terrorism.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:21 | 5923304 Tall Tom
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Debris field is too small for a breakup at altitude.

 

Have you ever heard of the Four Points investigation technique?

 

No?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:29 | 5922820 SmittyinLA
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8-10 minutes is a long time for 144 people to send texts and emails and phone calls 

Or was the plane not flying in a cellular coverage area? 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:36 | 5922852 sidiji
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I hope they did an environmental impact study before conducting that crash!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:58 | 5922912 elvy
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*Sees report about a tragedy with unknown cause.*

*Realizes this is Zerohedge.*

*Fully expects anything except condolences to those who lost loved ones.*

*Welp.*

 

Such a sad bunch of people.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:31 | 5923327 Tall Tom
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You obviously did not read the comments from the first Zerohedge post of the developing story.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-24/airbus-a320-carrying-148-crashes-french-alps

 

This is the SECOND Story about the crash.

 

Do you want to read condolences you mother fucker?

 

So, instead you decide to criticize instead of offer your condolences.

 

You are a sad example of a human being..

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:14 | 5923119 sidiji
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they were shot down by Alpian separatists with weapons provided by Mossad in a false flag operation to implicate the Greeks

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:11 | 5923280 Die Weiße Rose
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8 minutes from 38000 ft to 6000 ft at impact that is a vertical speed descent rate of 4000 feet per minute (loss of 32000 ft in 8 minutes = 4000ftm or 80km/h)

The standard rate of descent for cruise descent or a controlled landing is a vertical speed (VSI) of 500 feet per minute or 10 km/h.

According to the numbers from ground radar the Ground speed or forward speed over ground (GS) was between 900 km/h and 700 km/h just before impact.

AU9525 Airbus seemed to have a controlled flight into ground, a controlled descent for 8 minutes with a 4000 feet per minute descent rate over the 8 minutes.

4000 ftm is a vertical speed of ca 80km/h and points to a severe sideslip, (inverted after stall ?) or at the very least a very unusual flight attitude

of an otherwise fully intact aircraft were large surfaces like the fuselage face relative airflow, as in a sideslip.

A sideslip is often used by Aerobatic Pilots to attain a rapid descent rate or high 4000ftm vertical speed (VSI)

while still maintaining a high ground speed (GS)or forward Air Speed (ASI) without stalling.

For whatever reason, this was a controlled flight into terrain in my humble opinion.

WR;)

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 03:46 | 5924288 Eo187
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I'd like to point out something interesting. The general in charge of the operations in France is Denis Mercier.

 

He was promoted from NATO SACT, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, just MONDAY:

 

http://defense.blogs.lavoixdunord.fr/archive/2015/03/24/le-general-denis...

 

 

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